| Joe Connelly Wednesday, October 29 12:30pm-2pm Library Auditorium Crandall Library |
Joe Connelly will read from his work. He is the author of Crumbtown and Bringing Outthe Dead, based on his own experience as an emergency medic, which was made into a movie starring Nicholas Cage, and directed by Martin Scorsese. |
| Jessica Abel Thursday, November 06 12:30pm-2pm Library Auditorium Crandall Library |
Jessica Abel will give a workshop in this emerging field for all would-be graphic novel writers. She won the prestigious Xeric grant and the Harvey Award for "best new talent." Call 743-2210 ASAP to register. There is a $10 fee for this session.Jessica Abel will show and read from her graphic novels (extended, literary comic books). She is the author of several graphic books published by Fantagraphics and numerous self-published books. |
| Jessica Abel Thursday, November 06 5:45pm-8:45pm Miller Auditorium Dearlove Hall |
Jessica Abel will give a workshop in this emerging field for all would-be graphic novel writers. She won the prestigious Xeric grant and the Harvey Award for "best new talent." Call 743-2210 ASAP to register. There is a $10 fee for this session.Jessica Abel will show and read from her graphic novels (extended, literary comic books). She is the author of several graphic books published by Fantagraphics and numerous self-published books. |
| Janice Galloway Tuesday, March 16 12:30p.m.-1:50p.m. Visual Arts Gallery Dearlove Hall |
Scottish author Janice Galloway will read from her novel Clara, based on the diaries of Clara Schumann. Peter Matthews, writing in the Observer, called Galloway "a fierce and troubling new writer." Galloway earned the creative Scotland Award in 2002 and won Scotland's McVitie's Prize for best novel in 1994. Clara was a New York Times Notable Book for 2003. |
| Naton Leslie Wednesday, November 09 12:30 p.m.-2:00 p.m. Visual Arts Gallery Dearlove Hall |
Naton Leslie was the receipent of the National Endowment of the Arts Fellowship for poetry and a grant from the New York State Foundation for the Arts. His most recent book, That Might Be Useful: Exploring America's Second Hand Culture, has been published by Lyon Press. He has published five volumes of poetry. His collection of short stories, Marconi's Dream and Other Stories, won the George Garrett Fiction Prize and depicts the Steel Valley and upstate New York. He teaches at Siena College. |
| Wednesday, October 11 7 pm Library Auditorium Crandall Library |
Mark Bowie - Adirondack Waters: Spirit of the Mountains |
| Thursday, October 12 7 pm Library Auditorium Crandall Library |
Fergus Bordewich - Bound for Canaan: The Underground Railroad and the War for the Soul of America |
| Sunday, October 22 TBA Library Auditorium Crandall Library |
Rena Bernstein - Bitter Freedom: Memoirs of a Holocaust Survivor by Jafa Wallach The Chronicle Book Fair |
| Kim Jensen Tuesday, October 24 7 pm - 9 pm Visual Arts Gallery Dearlove Hall |
Kim Jensen, an American married to a Palestinian, has taught in the Middle East and written for a wide variety of newspapers and magazines, including Al Jadid, Rain Taxi Review, Al AbramWeekly, the Oakland Tribune and Poetry Flash. A section of her debut novel, The Woman I Left Behind (Curbstone 2006), won the Raymond Carver Prize for Short Fiction. In powerful, poetic language, it chronicles an American woman's and a Palestinian man's struggle to overcome the personal and political barriers than divide then, while providing a rare glimpse into Palestinian history and culture and underscring the vital connection between politics, the imagination, and the most intimate aspects of our lives. |
| Thursday, October 26 7 pm Library Auditorium Crandall Library |
Mary Jablonski - Poetry reading |
| Mary Sanders Shartle Wednesday, November 01 7 pm - 9 pm Visual Arts Gallery Dearlove Hall |
Local poet, fiction writer, folk singer and songwriter Mary Sanders Shartleis no stranger to the Adirondack literary scene. She was a semi-finalist for a New York State Arts Funding grant, and her chapbook, Notes from the Fire Tower:Three Poets on the Adirondacks(which includes the work of Marilyn McCabe and Elaine Handley), was named Best Book of Poetry by the Adriondack Center for Writing for the year 2004-2005. Her work also won the Blueline's short fiction prize. Her historical novel, The Philosopher's Child, about the fifth child of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, her historical/supernatural novel Between the Two, about a Catholic woman who seeks ehr family's history in Assisi during the German Occupation, as well as her wryly witty chapbook, Advice to the Lovelorn, are currently seeking publishers. |
| Marilyn McCabe Wednesday, November 08 7 pm - 9 pm Visual Arts Gallery Dearlove Hall |
Drawing on her experience as a hiker, cyclist and skier, Marilyn McCabe's vigorous poetry gnaws a wolf-like edge between the spiritual and physical landscape of the Adirondacks in the Notes from the Fire Tower: Three poets on the Adirondacks. Her poetry has been accepted by Nimrod, Blueline, CQ, Poetry Motel and Bright Hill Press's Word Thursday's Anthology. She has read her essays on National Public Radio and bpublished her work in regional newspapers and magazines including Adirondack Life. She has also performed as a singer in Albany and Saratoga and sometiems sings when she reads her poems. Don't miss this polished performance. |
| Thursday, November 30 7 pm Folklife Center Crandall Library |
Paul Pines - Poetry reading |